The final week at Caracol was devoted to finishing the necessary laboratory work along with artifact drawings and photos. Everything was largely completed by the end of the day Wednesday. This left Thursday to do packing and let the men begin to break-down the camp. Brian Woodye and David Gri...
This was another sunny and dry week. All in-field drawing was finished on Monday. Also on Monday, we started backfilling all of our excavations. Faydt worked with the backfilling team and they finished everything by the end of the day on Wednesday. On Tuesday, I drove out to the Georgeville t...
This was a very complicated week in terms of comings and goings. Excavation continued all week, but was interrupted by a national municipal election in Belize, which meant that 7 men went out to vote on Tuesday evening and were gone for almost all of Wednesday. Besides the election, I drove to the ...
Like last week, the entire week was sunny. However, we did get some rain on Saturday afternoon that appears to have ushered in a cold front. All of the excavations moved at a good pace this week and we are hoping to be largely finished by the end of next week in order to transition into laboratory ...
What a difference a week of no rain makes. This was a sunny week except for an afternoon shower on Friday afternoon. All of the excavations progressed significantly. Cheech Residential Group In the Cheech Residential Group (C209), a beautiful alleyway appeared in between the tw...
This was the week of rain, mud, water puddles, and a squishy walk to the top of the hill supporting the Puchituk Terminus. In spite of that, we succeeded in opening up all of the initial excavations that we wanted to do, bringing lunch out with everybody so as to not have to do the walk twice a day...
The first week of actual work at the Puchituk Terminus got off to a slow start. Diane was still here for her initial visit and on Monday we went out to Puchituk in the morning to assess what needed to be done. The men were bushing the main plaza and attempting to find groups to brush for excavat...
Adrian and I arrived in Belize on January 24, after having spent the previous night at the Dallas airport hotel. We were met by Brian Woodye, who is coordinating camp start-up. Six men and four ladies have been at camp since January 20. We spent 3 nights in San Ignacio Cayo, meeting John Morris for...
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